With development I kind of shudder to think what some people will be doing to gold production in Tirol. It is still good at things like diplomacy and is not to bad militarily either. You may have noticed a theme of nations I rated above France in single player can now destroy France easier than before? France is by no means bad at all just not the absurd BBB it has been in previous patches.Īustria has had the hell buffed out of it in recent DLCs. With recent buffs to Castiles national ideas they can still do the wreck France thing, take over the Iberian peninsula, PU Aragon easier than before and invade England and expand in Italy.Ī former number 1 and as of last week I would have rated them number 2. Gold fleets also have reduced inflation costs as well which can give Castile an absurd amount of ducats. Castile of course can get around this by going colonial and using that income from the colonies to get better advisers to get more monarch points to offset the coring coasts. This patch makes coring costs stupidly high. Throw in the new parliament thing and England has received some massive buffs in this patch.

It is now easier than ever to have a land based England and still have the best navy in the world and.or play the colonial and trade game. Poland can really into space and maybe even hit the moon.Įngland picks up some additional lands in this patch and starts the game with a truce with France allowing them to ally Austria and Castille at game start. To make things even better they can still feed Lithuania and get a free annexation with their decision to form the PLC. In addition they get a decision for free westernization. The amopunt of development in Poland and Lithuania seems out of whack and getting around 40-50k men at game star more or less allows you to plow through anyone. Free cores and missions that gives you claims on a good chunk of the middle east and Africa along with a great ruler and heir tend to accelerate the Ottomans out of the gate.įrance more or less took a tumble and I would argue Poland is now more powerful than the nerfed BBB. Well some nation has tobe the most powerful nation in the game an I believe it is the Ottoderps. Criteria for the ratings include how easy the nation is to play, sheer brute power, expansion opportunities and geographical position. Put simply several nations has received buffs other nations have got weaker all things being relative. The list IMHO has changed quite a bit due to the new DLC.

So the new patch is here and I thought I would do another top 20 most powerful nations.

Eu4 best formable nations